All Things GiantsOne Roman soldier had enormous feet, 2,000-year-old waterlogged leather shoe reveals Posted on June 19, 2025 by Administrator Archaeologists have unearthed an enormous leather shoe while digging at the bottom of an “ankle-breaker” defensive ditch at a Roman fort in northern England. The shoe and other leather goods from the fort, called Magna, are providing new information about shoe manufacturing techniques and the people who wore them almost 2,000 years ago.
